Letters to the editor for Friday, March 8, 2013

Friday

Mar 8, 2013 at 2:00 AM

The Alarmist and Propagandist in Chief clearly doesn't believe it, and the American people are too smart to believe that a (Sequester) 2.5 percent reduction in the rate of spending increase is going to have disastrous economic results on the economy, as these scare tactics are indicating.

The Alarmist and Propagandist in Chief clearly doesn't believe it, and the American people are too smart to believe that a (Sequester) 2.5 percent reduction in the rate of spending increase is going to have disastrous economic results on the economy, as these scare tactics are indicating.

Our intelligence continues to be insulted by this administration.

David Chambers

Monroe

Your very partisan paper presents information that ignores facts.

The Sequester business is a formula of spending reductions proposed by President Obama. It requires a minuscule modification in spending (about 2.3 percent), which barely affects the $3 trillion federal spending program. Indeed, federal expenditures will increase this year, with or without sequester.

It would be appropriate if you informed your readers clearly and forthrightly of this fact rather than scaring everybody about a government shutdown caused by Republicans, as imparted in a recent editorial.

Unfortunately, the president's message of doom carries considerable truth. The obvious reason for our peril is this government's profligate spending, which will ruin our economy and our society.

The statements are setting up the Republicans to be scapegoats, when they are trying to achieve some responsible governance. Their task is all but impossible as Obama imparts a false message that is enthusiastically promulgated by a lapdog mainstream media.

Editors have a constitutional responsiblity to do better. The lack of a free press is a danger to a free society.

Richard Wallace

Goshen

Greenwood Lake Mayor Barbara Moore is a person of unquestioned honesty, integrity and accountability. When Moore appointed Jesse

Dwyer as trustee, she saw potential. That didn't pan out. As a 23-year village resident who attends nearly every village board meeting, I have watched Dwyer shamelessly grandstanding. That behavior is shocking and unprofessional.

In two years on the Village Board, he hasn't done much. A recent letter notes that Dwyer "presented facts and figures" at the village candidates' forum. Had he done his job as trustee, he could have presented accurate facts and figures. He did not. Nor has he brought "fresh ideas" to the village board.

The letter suggests Dwyer is about fiscal responsibility. Yet the trustee doesn't know the facts about village budgets and expenditures he has approved.

Moore has proven abilities and a work-for-the-village ethic and has accomplished much. She works with and for village residents. Cut through the rhetoric. Vote for Barbara Moore March 19.